Journal Publishing Co. v. American Home Assurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• considering only “the sufficiency of the allegations” on a motion to amend, not “factual arguments going to the merits” of the proposed claims
• limiting the scope of discovery following complaint amendment “solely to that needed in connection with the new allegations to be included in the amended complaint.”
• “[I]t is axiomatic that a court may not look beyond the face of the [pleading].”
• district court considers only sufficiency of the allegations in a proposed amended complaint in determining whether proposed amendments are futile
• “[I]t is axiomatic that a court may not look beyond the face of the complaint.”
• “[I]t is axiomatic that a court may not look beyond the face of the complaint on a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).